Male Infertility When a couple cannot get pregnant for one year it means that they are facing the problem of infertility. A third of reported cases according to statistics is referred to as male infertility.
Any problem with ejaculation or sperm count can be the reason of male infertility diagnosis. Ejaculation comes during orgasm when the semen gets released through the penis. A lot of diseases can cause infertility in this level, like erectile dysfunctions, premature ejaculation, radiation therapy, surgery side effects and surgery complications. Also a man can suffer from retrograde ejaculation when the semen after orgasm is pushed back into the bladder.
If the amount of sperm is low it can be not enough to make a woman pregnant. There are some cases when there is no sperm at all. Both of the problems can be caused by infections ( the most severe is mumps infection), bad hereditary or hormonal disorder. Among the possible reasons are wearing tight clothes and underwear, overuse of tobacco, alcohol and drugs. If you was radiated or get poisoned by chemicals you must also check your sperm quality.
Abnormality of a man’s sperm is also represented by the case when a sperm is malformed and has a short life period. Because of that the sperm cannot move efficiently. This defect can be caused by inflammation or abnormal development of the testes or by swollen veins in the scrotum when the veins critically affect what is going on inside the scrotum i.e. the sperm production.
Any case of male infertility must lead you immediately to a doctor. A specialist will diagnose your exact problem by a detail physical examination. Early treatment gives you more chances to be remedied. During the examination your medical history will be carefully examined, you will make different tests like a culture of your penis fluid, a blood test which will pinpoint your existing infections and hormone disorders, a semen analysis wherein they check the amount and quality of your sperm cells. Subject to your case, maybe more analysis will be obligatory.
About 50 percents of men infertility can be completely treated. Do not wonder that your case must be among the other 50 percents. Even old conventional methods help the couple to get pregnant. There are a lot of antibiotics, medications and hormone pills the use of which helps men to produce more qualitative sperm, to stop infections and hormonal disbalance. Also, you can aid wearing loose underwear like boxers and avoiding saunas, long-termed hot showers and hot tubs.
Other available treatments seem to be quiet expensive and invasive. Among them there are in vitro fertilization, the use of sperm donor and artificial insemination. In vitro fertilization becomes more and more popular method all over the world. During this procedure a man’s sperm and a woman’s egg meet each other inside a test tube where the egg gets fertilized. After fertilization the fertilized egg is placed inside the female’s uterus. A donor sperm is a way for those men who cannot produce any sperm or their sperm is malformed and cannot be used for fertilization. Artificial insemination implies that a amount of sperm artificially is placed inside the fallopian tubes or the female uterus where it “swims” to the egg to fertilize it.
Unfortunately, some cases of infertility, especially those which were caused by genetic problems or severe illnesses, cannot be somehow prevented. But you still can aid avoiding drugs, alcohol, poisonous substances. Good hygiene and healthy lifestyle help you to avoid a lot of male problems. Read more on men's health. |
